Monitoring water supplies and sanitation in Ethiopia

Monitoring Water Supplies and
National WaSH Program

Sanitation in Ethiopia
Prepared by:- Tamene Hailu Debela
National WASH Inventory Office (NWI)

MoWE
April, 2013

Out line

I. National WASH inventory
II. Some key figures and additional benefits
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III. Selected KPI Definitions and Computation Methods
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IV. Draft Selected KPI Result based on ME-MIS
V. Problems/ issues
VI. Next Steps

Ministry of water and Energy

I. National WASH Inventory

• First of its kind in Ethiopia
• Grew from need to strengthen monitoring and evaluation in
the WaSH sector
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• Aims of the initiative
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• to provide baseline data for planning and various
monitoring purposes
• to establish the backbone of a reliable, sector-wide M&E
system
• to put an end to the dissimilarity over access figures


Scope and process

What gets measured?
 Rural community water supply schemes
 Rural household hygiene and sanitation
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 Rural household drinking water use
 WASH in schools and health facilities (institutional
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WASH), and
 Urban water supply, sanitation and hygiene
And how?
 Steering committees established at federal level, regional,
Zonal, Woreda and kebele level
 National WASH Inventory project office established at all
levels
 Sensitization mission for administrators at all levels

Continued….
 Awareness given to the community through mass media
like national and local Radio, TV, and newspapers
 Training given for supervisors, nominators and data
encoders: about 70,000 people have participated in NWI
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 Data collected with approval of Kebele and Woreda
administration
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 Data entry is done at regional level using Access database
 Soft copy to national WASH inventory project office for
the analysis of KPI
 Regions clean their data and undertake analysis with the
support of WASH M&E MIS


Current progress

• All regions (except Somali region) have completed data
collection and data entry
• Regions are cleaning their data
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• The MoWE has finished preliminary analysis of data using
the Management Information Software (MIS)
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• Up date the data started in regions
• Role out done for 58 woredas and will continue to others
• Procurement of server and computer is on progress


III. Some key figures
 92,588 rural water supply schemes
 1,605 town water supply schemes
 30,000 schools
 20,000 health institutions
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 12 million households asked about drinking water supply
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and sanitation
 More than 100 million birr spent (excluding format and
manual printing, Access database/MIS, NGO and
Regional input)


Rural Water Supply Schemes
Benshang Dire
Type of Rural Schemes Tigray Afar Amhara Oromiya ul/gumuz SNNP Gambela Hareri Dawa Total
Deep Well with
Distribution 159 83 338 1,625 6 477 17 7 23 2735
Hand Dug Well with
5,349 273 19,291 5,749 1,457 1,708 166 219 17 34,229
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Normal Pump
Hand Dug Well with
Rope Pump 171 398 3,699 1,036 38 179 36 81 1 5639
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Other 110 527 5,709 6346

Protected on-spot Spring 690 66 9,643 10,975 38 2,999 94 47 44 24596

Shallow Well 2,906 126 1,667 2,030 213 871 245 31 17 8,106
Spring with Distribution
Small 468 362 2,958 2,637 31 4,259 11 45 166 10937

Total 9853 1308 37,596 24,579 1783 16,202 569 430 268 92588


Additional benefits

• Integrating many WASH actors
 the NWI has been a force for integration i.e. both between
different levels of government and within each administrative
level.
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 enhanced cooperation with CSOs
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 allowed lower levels of government to engage with communities
• Data retained at woreda level
 assists woreda officials with planning and maintenance work
 Feedback from woreda staff also indicates that the NWI
generated vast amounts of informal knowledge at woreda level


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IV. Selected KPI Definitions and
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Computation Methods


RURAL

• Access
 Definition :- % of rural population that is provided access to 15
l/c/d water within 1.5 km of the water supply point
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 Computation (Number of beneficiaries that have accessed and
could access 15 l/c/d water within 1.5 km of the water supply
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point , including repairable non-functional water supply
schemes/ Total population from CSA) x 100 (%)
• Usage
 Definition :- % of rural population that is actually using water
from the water point irrespective of quantities used and distance
from the water point
 Computation :- (Number of beneficiaries actually using
water from water supply point: as per the data from the annual
inventory of water supply schemes / Total population from CSA)
x 100 (%)

URBAN

• Access
 Definition % of urban population that is provided access to 20
l/c/d improved water from the domestic/household water
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consumptions inventory
Data NeededA = Domestic Water Consumptions
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B = Total population from CSA
 Computation ((A*1000)/(365*20) )/B) x 100 (%)

• Usage
 Definition % of population served by the water supply utilities
Data NeededA = Served Population
B = Total population from CSA
 Computation (Served Population/ Total number of people)
x 100 (%)


Functionality of rural schemes

• Definition
 % of Functional rural water supply schemes
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• Computation
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Number of functional schemes/ Total number
of water schemes x 100 (%)


Health Institutions- WaSH

• Access to Latrine Facilities
 Definition :- % of Health Institutions having access
to Latrine Facilities
 Computation :- (Total No. of Health Institutions
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having access for Latrine Facilities/ Total No. of Health
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Institutions in required area) x 100 (%)
• Access to Water Supply
 Definition :- % of Health Institutions having access to
water supply
 Computation :- (Total No. of Health Institutions having
access to water supply/Total No. of Health
Institutions in required area) x 100 (%)


School – WaSH
• Access to Latrine Facilities
 Definition :- % of Schools having access to Latrine
Facilities
 Computation :- (Total No. of Schools having access for Latrine
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Facilities/ Total No. of Schools in required area) x 100 (%)
• Access to Improved Latrine Facilities
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 Definition :- % of Schools having access to Improved
Latrine Facilities
 Computation :- (Total No. of Schools having access for
Improved Latrine Facilities/ Total No. of Schools in
required area) x 100 (%)
• Access to Water Supply
 Definition :- % of schools with Drinking Water
Supply
 Computation :- (Total No. of schools with Water Supply /Total
number of schools in the required area) x
100 (%) Draft KPI Results

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V. Selected KPI Result based on ME-MIS


NATIONAL LEVEL WATER SUPPLY Access

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National WaSH NATIONAL LEVEL WATER SUPPLY Usage (Based on SI)
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NATIONAL LEVEL Health Institution WASH (Based on SI)
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National WaSH NATIONAL LEVEL School WASH (Based on SI)
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National WaSH Access to latrine facilities (based on household inventory )
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National WaSH Access to Drinking water (based on household inventory )
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REGIONAL LEVEL WATER SUPPLY –Rural

Access

No Region (With in 1.5 Km) Usage
1 Tigray 52.74 69.21
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2 Afar 34.79 71.59
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3 Amhara 51.58 62.83
4 Oromiya 49.76 61.61
5 Benishangul 59.68 64.87
6 SNNP 42.02 55.50
7 Gambela 64.73 76.55
8 Harar 65.11 68.63
10 Diredawa 75.63 94.43

Functionality status of Rural Water Supply
Schemes
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REGIONAL LEVEL WATER SUPPLY – Urban

Access Usage

No Region (Dom. Consum. 20l/c/d) (Served Pop.)
1 Tigray 68.44 73.78
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2 Afar 82.14 85.38
3 Amhara
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65.43 93.28
4 Oromiya 75.38 71.84
5 Benishangul 46.24 78.45
6 SNNP 65.11 84.08
7 Gambela 80.23 83.15
8 Harar 99.99 100.00
9 Addis Ababa 82.22 94.10
10 Diredawa 87.57 90.00


Drinking Water access in the house hold
No Region Rural Urban Total
1 Tigray 53.93 71.71 57.84
2 Afar - - -
3 Amhara
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46.04 74.25 47.53
4 Oromiya 41.64 71.6 45.11
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5 Benishangul 37.3 16.29 36.78
6 SNNP 52.26 89.31 54.1
7 Gambela 44.66 79.69 46.44
8 Harar - - -
9 Addis Ababa - 96.16 96.16
10 Diredawa - - -
National ( only for
available data) 44.69 82.48 49.62


Access to Latrine facility of house hold
No Region Rural Urban Total
1 Tigray 54.17 80.77 59.94
2 Afar 51.17 - 51.17
3 Amhara
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63.11 78.11 63.71
4 Oromiya 48.47 70.10 50.19
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5 Benishangul 57.13 98.1 58.31
6 SNNP 74.25 94.50 75.04
7 Gambela 29.21 73.09 35.87
8 Harar 56.21 53.50 54.17
9 Addis Ababa - 92.27 92.27
10 Diredawa 53.68 100 84.67


National WaSH HEALTH INSTITUTIONS WASH
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National WaSH SCHOOL WASH
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VI. Problems/ issues
• Data Collection:
 The number of forms produced.; Regions had a shortfall of forms,
especially forms 4 & 5
 The nature of the forms. it would be better if forms 4 and 5 were
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consolidated into a single form to avoid repetition of Household names
etc at both the data collection and data entry phases.
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 Missing GPS data: There were problems with recording the GPS
coordinates of schemes. there was some confusion in using the UTM
reading styles and additional GPS training was given. Roughly 33% of
schemes do not have GPS coordinates and about 15% of schools and
health centres are also missing this data. The reasons for this were
• A lack of training and experience in using the GPS equipment and


Con…
• Other missing data.: yield, functionality status, the number of
households within 1.5km of the water source, health type, latrine type,
and water supply type, some schools don’t have information on the
number of students in the school.
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• Timing of the NWI. The fact the NWI was carried out in the rainy season
and this caused challenges for the enumerators. This meant that often in
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the day the farmer was on their farm land and the enumerator had to
find the farmers on their land.
• Other logistical challenges. there were initial worries about a lack of
vehicles for data collection but NGOs contributed to providing vehicles.
Also there were delays in the sending of budget to some regions.


Con…
• Data Entry:
 Delays in starting data entry: Although data entry started in September
there have been delays due to the lengthy procurement process of
computers and network installation.
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 Duplication of kebeles unique identifiers: In Oromia there were
problems initially with the data entry software allowing Kebeles with
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similar names to be entered under the same unique identifier. This was
solved by putting all 7276 kebeles into a single main table and giving
each the unique identifier that CSA has for them.
 The time consuming business of forms 4 & 5: The biggest obstacle to
successful data entry is the sheer number of forms to be entered. In
Oromia alone there are 5.2 million Households to be entered


VII. Next Steps
• Reviewing completeness:, if the NWI is to be truly national the
Somali region inventory must be undertaken.
• Data Cleaning by Regions: Data should be sent to the Central
Statistical Authority (CSA) for verification.
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• Verification: NWI data needs to be assessed in terms of quality and
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completeness. means that the NWI data will be verified by the
Central Statistical Agency.
 The CSA has a Data Quality Directorate, which is mandated with
certifying the quality of any data that is to be published as a
National Statistic.
 Data quality can only be measured by doing field based sample
verification


Con…

• Household Data: The time consuming business of forms 4 & 5’,
entering forms 4 & 5 which represent household level data is taking
a long time unless a substantial amount more money is invested in
the data entry process.
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 So that we recommend entering only kebele-level summaries.
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 CSA is expecting household level data and although Kebele
summaries will not be as accurate as household level data the
accuracy of the kebeles summaries can be checked with
sampling.


Con…

• Data Analysis:
Now the data has been entered and
preliminary analysis done by the MoWE using
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MIS software.
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 Although final analysis must use verified data
from CSA, the NWIPO will use the preliminary
data at the moment.
At a later stage, analysis training will be rolled
out to regions to allow them to produce
Woreda Report Cards.


Con…

• Reporting/Statistical abstracts
 After analysis reports and statistical abstracts will be produced
for the national and regional level.
 These statistical abstracts will have disaggregated data which will
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be used by regions and at the national level.
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 Reporting will be according to the 15 key performance indicators
for the WASH sector.
 After analysis reports and statistical abstracts have been
produced there has to be:
• A concept note must be developed for final NWI publication
• Data access by different levels and third parties must be
immediately clarified


Con…

• Sustainability
 The NWI establishes base line data for the WASH sector, but this
must be regularly updated. The things that need to be done to
ensure this happens:
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• All sector stakeholders should come together to
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discuss both their data needs as well as available
resources for updating.
• A second aspect is putting the collected data into
active use. This will require training (on evidence
based planning etc) to be rolled out to the woreda
level at least.


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